Netherlands: 85 million Euro frost damage to fruit

The period of frost in the beginning of February has already caused 85 million Euro damage in the entire fruit cultivation sector. In all of the Netherlands fruit companies suffered severe damage in both apple and pear orchards. This results in a loss of harvest and of trees.

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US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Two Harvard engineers are planning to spray thousands of tonnes of sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Greenpeace activists shut down 74 UK Shell petrol stations | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The campaigners are attempting to shut off petrol to London's 105 Shell stations and Edinburgh's 14. Seventy-one have been closed in London and three in Edinburgh.

There have been 24 confirmed arrests, 18 in London and six in Edinburgh. The police in Edinburgh have reportedly parked cars outside all Shell stations across the capital.
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The activists are shutting down the stations by using an emergency shut-off switch to stop petrol going to the pumps and then removing a fuse to delay it being switched on again.